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Oct 22, 2007 · The Philosophy of Music. First published Mon Oct 22, 2007; substantive revision Mon Oct 30, 2023. Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it. Like any “philosophy of X,” it presupposes knowledge of its target.
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Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics. The expression was born in the 19th century and has been used especially as the name of a discipline since ...
Jul 13, 2021 · History of Western Philosophy of Music: Antiquity to 1800. First published Tue Jul 13, 2021. Since its origins in ancient Greece, the Western philosophical tradition has investigated the nature and value of music. This entry examines the development of Western philosophy of music from Greek Antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century.
Jul 27, 2016 · Introduction. Narrowly construed, philosophy of music encompasses all theorizing about music that arises within philosophy. More broadly construed, it includes any theoretical discussion of music informed by recognized philosophical methodologies and theories.
Oct 22, 2007 · This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Philosophy of Music. Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. Like any ‘philosophy of X’, it presupposes a knowledge of its target area of study.
Analytic Perspectives in the Philosophy of Music. The philosophy of music attempts to answer questions concerning the nature and value of musical practices. Contemporary analytic philosophy has tackled these issues in its characteristically piecemeal approach, and has revived interest in questions about the ontological nature of musical works ...
Music in Philosophy. Ralph Blumenau tells us what great thinkers said about great music. Today some universities have courses in the Philosophy of Music. They study such questions as: What is the definition of music? What makes us say that a particular set of sounds is music while another set of sounds is not?
